OS Selector De-activates Windows XP

I have a very simple system setup. Partition 1 of my primary hard drive has Windows XP Pro installed - minimal install. Partition 2 has Windows XP Pro installed which I use as my working system. Partition 3 has Windows 2000 installed as a test operating system partition. After installing OS Selector (the most recent version) I booted the Partition 1 operating system. Everything seemed OK. I then booted my Partition 2 operating system only to find that when I tried to log on, it told me I couldn't use the Windows XP until I activated it. This OS was already activated. Strange. I booted back to my Partition 1 OS and everything seemed OK. I then deactivated OS Selector, rebooted to my partition 1 operating system and still found it de-activated (Windows XP activation). I then rebooted to Partitiion 1 (remember, OS Selector is no longer active) and now found that is was as well Windows XP deactivated. I fix this problem by restoring the operating system(s) from a previously saved image (TrueImage). After the restore, both operating systems are OS activated.

Any ideas?

 

Hello BillK,

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Management Software.

I have forwarded this issue to our Testing Team. They will try to reproduce the problem. However this is probably a Windows XP issue not directly related to Acronis OS Selector.

Please read more about Windows XP activation at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/features/activation.mspx

Thank you.
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Semyonov Vasily